The Nonspread of Innovations: the Mediating Role of Professionals
通过对英国医疗保健行业八项创新的定性研究，发现多专业分化导致创新难以传播，因为不同专业之间的社会与认知边界阻碍了知识流动。
Two qualitative studies in the U.K. health care sector trace eight purposefully selected innovations. Complex, contested, and nonlinear innovation careers emerged. Developing the nonlinear perspective on innovation spread further, we theorize that multi-professionalization shapes “nonspread.” Social and cognitive boundaries between different professions retard spread, as individual professionals operate within unidisciplinary communities of practice. This new theory helps explain barriers to the spread of innovation in multiprofessional organizations in both health care and other settings.